poaching the bay area's news with scott pelley is nex "cbs evening news" is next. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com revelations in the i.r.s. scandal. top officials are sworn to tell truth, and we learn of another fabrication in the targeting of conservative groups. nancy cordes and wyatt andrews are on the story. anna werner meets the survivor where's 16 tornadoes tore through texas. it's not just cleveland. jim axelrod finds that battered women are held hostage more often than we knew. lines stretch for hours in the largest powerball jackpot ever. carter evans is in los angeles. and steve hartman on the road with charles mowbry. his combat gallantry went unrecognized until an eight- year-old took the government to school. >> he fought for our country and our freedom. everyone deserves something for that.

captioning sponsored by cbs captioni this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the secretary of the treasury today ordered a thorough review of the i.r.s. and gave its new acting leader, daniel werfel 30 days to report his findings to the president. it was a week ago we learned the i.r.s. had been targeting conservative groups. werfel's predecessor was called before congress today. members of congress have accused steven miller of misleading them, so the house ways and means committee took the unusual step of putting him under oath, meaning that he would risk perjury charges if he were caught in a lie. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> nothing but the truth, so help you god. >> i do. >> i do. >> reporter: wearing a look like he knew what he was in for, the head of the i.r.s. started with an following.

>> i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. >> reporter: and then steven miller settled in for a four- hour barrage of bipartisan disgust. new york democrat charles rangel. >> how far did this cancer go? how quickly can we cut it out? >> reporter: lawmakers were furious with miller who they say spent the past year denying that tea party groups had been singled out for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. wisconsin republican paul ryan. >> how was that not misleading this committee? you knew the targets was taking place. you knew the terms "tea party" "patriots" were being used. how can we conclude you did not mislead this committee. >> i did not mislead the committee. i stand by my answer then. i stand by my answer now. >> members reminded miller at a hearing in july he say the:

with a criminal probe under way, millerpondedarefully. >> i answered all questions truthfully. i did not mislead congress nor the american people. i answered all the questions i was asked. >> so your answer is a nonanswer once again. >> reporter: miller said he learned of the targeting last may, two years after it started. he said he immediately put an end to the questionnaires asking groups for lists of donors. >> the letters were bad. they were just way too broad. when we found out about it, we reached out to people who hadn't sent them yet and we told them don't send them. >> reporter: but he said, he still did not know who crafted the faulty guidelines. pennsylvania republican mike kelly was incredulous. >> this is absolutely an over- reach and this is an outrage for all america. i yield back. >> all right. >> ( applause ). >> reporter: the inspector general who spent past year investigating this incident also testified today, and he said that he told higher ups at the treasury department about his

probe last june. scott, that is sure to fuel republican allegations that the administration knew about this and tried to cover it up until after the presidential election. >> pelley: we learned something new about how this scandal broke. top managers at the i.r.s. knew about the targeting in 2011, but they denied it to the public and to the congress until last friday. that is when an i.r.s. official revealed the practice and apologized for it at an obscure meeting in washington. the apology to the tea party came from i.r.s. division head lois lerner. she unexpectedly admitted to the targeting during a meeting of the american bar association. it was all a response to a question that came out of the blue from celia rhode, a lawyer at the meeting. later that same day in a conference call with reporters, lerner suggested it was all a matter of chance. .

>> pelley: not exactly, according to the testimony today. >> did you or any of your subordinates direct lois lerner to make the public statement at the panel discussion acknowledging the targeting of tax-exempt groups? >> it was a prepared q & a. >> was miss rhody's question to mislerner about targeting conservative groups planned in advance? >> i believe that we talked about that, yes. >> pelley: so what appeared to be a spontaneous question was actually approved by the head of the i.r.s. and planted in the audience. we don't know why. congress wants to know why the i.r.s. waited until six months after the election. another question that this scandal has raised is how do these groups qualify for tax- exempt status?

we asked wyatt andrews to look into that. >> reporter: under a tax law that dates back 100 years, the cherrydale volunteer fire department in arlington, virginia, with its hundreds of members, is in the same i.r.s. tax category as the national rifle association with five million members. the same tax category applies to your local community association, and to the giant senior citizens lobby the a.a.r.p. the groups, called 501c-4s, are supposed to be exclusively social welfare organizations that benefit the common good. but congress has changed the law so often, the definition of social welfare now includes lobbying and even a limited amount of politics. in practice, that means as long as the a.a.r.p. provides information on issues important to seniors, it can also run political ads to fight cuts in medicare. >> cutting your benefits so washington can pay its bills.

>> reporter: the i.r.s. has to decide when a tax-exempt group is involved in too much politics, but the law doesn't define where to draw the line. mark owens ran the i.r.s. tax-exempt office for 10 years. generally, he says, the i.r.s. permits these groups to endorse a political position, but not a candidate or a party. in the tea party holds a rally and says, let's reduce the deficit," that's allowed? >> that's allowed. >> reporter: but at what point would a political organization, any political organization, their argument not be allowed? >> when that argument veers off into who to vote for in the election. >> reporter: but in last year's election, several political c-4 groups spent tens of millions on ads that criticized mitt romney or president obama by name. scott, at the hearing today, the i.r.s. asked congress to define when these groups should lose their tax exemption and disclose their donors. >> pelley: wyatt, thank you very much. the death toll from the

tornadoes that hit north texas this week stands at six, and it's not expected to rise. we learned today all of the missing have been accounted for. the survivors are telling amazing stories to anna werner in granbury, texas. >> reporter: scott, all six deaths here in granbury came in one area and the winds whipping through some of those neighborhoods topped 160 miles per hour. the tornado that ripped apart this neighborhood somehow spared howard smith's home but what he found in his yard haunts him. >> i saw the house in my yard, and i thought immediately there must be somebody in it. i went looking for people, and i found-- found the gentleman first. he told me his wife was there. and i found her, and she told me that her mother was there. >> reporter: betsy martin and her husband, tommy, were eating dinner with her mother, marjorie anne davis, when the tornado hit. the trailer home was about 300 yards that way. the tornado picked it up and

dropped it in this backyard. eddie martin is betsy's son. >> just unimaginable that they were in that. >> reporter: his mother survived. his father and grandmother did not. >> they said it looked like he was trying to protect my grandmother, which... he absolutely adored her. >> reporter: his uncle david came here to salvage what he could from his sister's belongings. he was joined by fellow firefighters from odessa, texas. >> i mean, these guys came from five hours away. as soon as they heard, they came. >> reporter: there wasn't much that was recognizable in the shattered home, but the odessa firefighters did find this. somehow the glass-encased flag given to marjorie anne davis when her husband died was

intact. he was a marine. now, eddie martin's mother, betsy, is expected to survive. scott, as for the rest of the residents affected, police say they expect to let them back into that neighborhood tomorrow to retrieve belongings. >> pelley: the governor said today the destruction was unimaginable. anna, thank you very much. the u.s. and russia are increasingly at odds or the syrian civil war. president obama says the dictator, bashar al-assad, has to go. but russia has supported the assad family for four decades, and russia has just agreed to send assad more sophisticate weapons. david martin has a look. >> reporter: the russians have made perfectly clear they intend to keep shipping advanced missiles like these to the syrian regime. today, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, was equally clear how he felt about that. >> it's, at the very least, an

unfortunate decision that will embolden the regime and prolong the suffering. >> reporter: dempsey was speaking about an antiship missile already delivered to syria which has a range of 180 miles. and we have learned russia has also begun shipping components advanced high-altitude air defense missile, despite repeated pleas from secretary of state kerry. >> i think we've made it crystal clear that we would prefer that russia was not supplying assistance. that is on record. that hasn't changed. >> reporter: antiship and anti- aircraft missiles are of no use against want syrian opposition, which has no navy or air force. but the air defense missiles could, according to dempsey, increase the risk to american aircraft if the u.s. were to intervene in syria's civil war. dempsey said the biggest risk is the weapons will give syria's president assad a false sense of security. >> what i really worry about is that assad will decide since he's got these systems, he's somehow safer or more prone to a miscalculation.

>> reporter: russia insists it's just business, delivering equipment in response to long- standing contracts. but it is also evidence russia won't be much help in persuading assad to go peacefully. >> pelley: thai, david. a battered woman held hostage, tells us why she was powerless to get away. and the first pitch came with a big surprise when the cbs evening news continues. why she was powerless to get away. and the first pitch came with a big surprise when the cbs u( i'm the next american success story. working for a company where over seventy-five percent of store management started as hourly associates. there's opportunity here. i can use walmart's education benefits to get a degree, maybe work in it,

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>> pelley: a recent kidnapping case in cleveland has focused new attention on domestic abuse. the federal government calls it a pervasive problem that frequently goes undetected. neighbors often have no idea what is happening. well, jim axelrod spoke with a victim whose freedom was stolen by an abusive partner. we've concealed her identity, and we call her "jessica." here is her story. >> i was a prisoner in my own home. i couldn't look out the window. my mom was in a hospital for surgery. i couldn't go to the hospital to see my mother if he didn't go with me. >> reporter: what do you mean you couldn't go? >> i wasn't allowed to. there were cameras inside my house so he could watch my every move. my phone was tapped. >> reporter: people will ask the question, "why didn't she just take her cell phone out and dial the police? >> i wasn't allowed to have a cell phone.

>> reporter: why department you just open the door and walk out? >> my door was locked from the outside. i couldn't leave the house. i wasn't allowed to shower if he was not in the house. i wasn't allowed to eat if he was not in the house. >> reporter: and if you violated the terms of how you were supposed to be living? >> it would get very, very aggressive and very physical. >> reporter: about six months into the relationship, jessica got pregnant. >> that's when it really got bad because that's when he really got control of me. >> reporter: is this when he started to hit you? >> yeah. this is when not just the physical abuse, the verbal abuse, the sexual abuse. it was just-- everything just at once. that's when everything started.

>> reporter: would he ever explain to you why he was so abusive? >> his excuse was he was afraid to lose me because he loved me so much, and that was his way of showing me that he loved me. >> reporter: according to the centers for disease control, 24% of women have experienced severe physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner, which is why jessica says neighbors must keep an eye on one another in every kind of neighborhood. >> many neighbors, they tend to turn a blind eye to situations, and they hear arguing, and they hear screaming, and they see and they're afraid to speak up. they should speak up. they might be saving somebody's life. i wish somebody would have done that for me. i wish they really, really would have spoken up. >> reporter: one day, when visiting her mom with her boyfriend, he started beating jessica. her sister called the cops. jessica got a restraining order,

but her lawyer at a nonprofit partners for women and justice say getting out the first time is rare, that it takes abused women up to seven attempts, scott, to get out for good. >> pelley: very revealing, jim, thanks very much. it is a thrill, of course, to toss the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game. the tampa bay rays chose nine- year-old alayna adams to do it last night. her dad, army lieutenant colonel will adams taped a good luck wish from afghanistan. alayna wound up and threw and then look who was behind the mask. dad was back from a two-year tour to make the catch of the night. the lines are growing for the record powerball jackpot. coming up next. if you're looking for help relieving heartburn,

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winners, so you can't be a winner if you don't stand in line. >> reporter: the odds of winning are 1 in 175 million. but california may have already hit the jackpot. >> you're welcome, sir. good luck. >> reporter: last month, the state became the largest state to participate in powerball. so far the state has sold $83 million worth of tickets. jeff bermont is with the california lottery. how much of a factor is california in the huge jackpots? >> gigantic. we expect to do at least 5% of the overall market share out of the 44 jurisdictions that are involved with powerball. >> reporter: this year, it's estimated at least $50 million from powerball ticket sales will go to california schools. the rush of players here and in other states is swelling the pot, which has grown by more than $230 million since the last drawing on wednesday. virginia expects to sell nearly

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top talent. next on kpix 5 weather talent appears at wx center with generic pinpoint filling monitor then we take special sponsored 7-day gra then we wipe to end tag the folks who fought the second world war have been called the greatest generation. well, one of them has found that there are some very fine members of the young generation ready to fight for what is right. here's steve hartman "on the road." >> mr. mowbray, are you ready to talk? >> reporter: whenever 87-year- old charles mowbray visits north salisbury elementary in salisbury, maryland, this world war ii navy sailor brings a boatload of stories. >> they come in a real fast dive. >> reporter: like the one how he helped rescue some men after a kamikaze attack. >> he put himself in danger for others. >> reporter: was he scared? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: how could you be in a situation like that and not be scared? >> i think he's brave. >> reporter: 8-year-old leanna morris is charles mowbray's biggest fan. >> i went to boot camp.

>> reporter: every time he visits her living history lesson, she hangs on every word and keys on every picture. >> new ship. >> reporter: it's what he doesn't bring that has really affected her. a few months ago, she noticed that mr. mowbray doesn't have one war medal. >> world war ii occupation. >> reporter: all he has are pictures of the ones he earned but never received. >> i thought the government would send them after a while but they didn't. >> reporter: how many years has it been? >> 67. >> reporter: he can laugh about it. but not leanna. this kept bothering you? >> yeah. mm-hm. >> reporter: she still stews over it. >> because he fought for our country and their freedom. and everyone deserves something for that. >> reporter: which is why a few weeks ago she wrote a letter to her senator. >> dear senator mikulski. >> reporter: two pages of heartfelt prose. >> mr. mowbray has been waiting

for 67 years and we don't want him to wait any longer. >> reporter: if that day ever comes that he gets those medals what will that mean to you? >> a lot. i would probably throw a party. >> reporter: would you? fortunately, her school was way ahead of her on that. [ applause ] >> reporter: this week, unbeknownst to leanna or charles, there was an assembly planned because unbeknownst to leanna or charles the letter worked. leanna got the honor of handing charles his medals. [ applause ] >> reporter: an 8-year-old correcting a 67-year-old injustice. >> it was nice. it was worth the wait. [ applause ] >> reporter: any kid can learn about history. but only a rare few can fix it, too. steve hartman "on the road" in salisbury, maryland. >> and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley. i'll see you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. m see you sunday on "60 minutes." unday captioning sponsored by cbs

>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald i was trying my best to get something started. >> turning frustration into opportunity and not for the bay area's benefit. tonight, there is a push from up north to poach our best and brightest. good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm elizabeth cook. it's no secret, the bay area is bursting with top tiered tech workers and we know other states are already trying to snatch them up. but now an entire country is aggressively trying to steal our top talent. sue kwon shows us canada's tempting pitch for success that might be too tempting to pass up. >> reporter: canada is offering a startup visa essentially a green card for entrepreneurs and it's meant to poach the

talefrom silicon valley. he is looking for a home base for his new web startup and is having trouble setting up shop in silicon valley. >> i was trying my best to get something started in u.s. career jobs here. i studied here. i wanted to contribute to the community here. but it's been extremely hard because of the current visa rules. >> reporter: with challenges getting h1b visas to bring in advanced engineering talent from india to the u.s. canada caught his eye and it's no accident. canada is actively recruiting entrepreneurs to move north. >> i'm not going to apologize. if you can't figure out your immigration system, we're going to invite the best and brightest to come north of the border. >> reporter: you must think you have something up. we do. a great quality of life. pristine environment, big cosmopolitan cities. >> reporter: the transportation minister plans to throw the bait out at this confe